Hope Thompson

Name and Hometown: Hope Thompson – Abilene, Texas

3-time WPRA Champion

Joined WPRA: 2010

Regular Season Earnings: $10,245

Starting 2020 NFBR in 13th place

Major regular season wins:

• Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (Brackets) $1,760
• Mobridge (South Dakota) Breakaway Roping (3rd), $1,613
• Burley (Idaho) Breakaway Roping (3rd)$1,399
• Rapid City (South Dakota) Breakaway Roping (2nd), $4,211
• Dickinson (North Dakota) Breakaway Roping (2nd) $1,336

Fun Facts about Hope: She also competes in the team roping and is just coming off of a WPRA title win heading for Whitney DeSalvo. She grew up in east Texas and her parents had horses. They took her to her first playday when she was a toddler and she was hooked. She is the youngest of four children and the only one to compete in the rodeo arena. She went to college at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. While in college she attended a Josey Ranch clinic and discovered a passion to be a clinician. Now she lives near Lari Dee Guy and they have partnered on clinics across the U.S. and also in Sweden and Australia.